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At Devil Lake
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Narcisse-Omer Cote (1859-1944) a civil servant for the Government of Canada, entered the department of the interior in 1879. In 1885, he was appointed secretary to the Royal Commission investigating and adjudicating Metis claims. In 1900 he became a Commissioner of the North-West Half-Breed Commission. The Commission was to enumerate and issue scrip to the Metis who qualified in the district of Saskatchewan and a small part of Manitoba. Their work lasted from May 16 to December 6 1900.At Snake Plains
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At Snake Plains (Men Posing in front of tent)
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At Snake Plains (picnic)
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Narcisse-Omer Cote (1859-1944) a civil servant for the Government of Canada, entered the department of the interior in 1879. In 1885, he was appointed secretary to the Royal Commission investigating and adjudicating Metis claims. In 1900 he became a Commissioner of the North-West Half-Breed Commission. The Commission was to enumerate and issue scrip to the Metis who qualified in the district of Saskatchewan and a small part of Manitoba. Their work lasted from May 16 to December 6 1900.The Battle of Seven Oaks: A Metis Perspective
Looks at the Battle of Seven Oaks and provides biographies of the Métis participants.
Canada's Residential Schools: The Métis Experience: The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 3
Changing Political and Cultural Realms in the Upper Great Lakes, 1826: A Case-study of the Influential "Oode" (or Family) of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
Claiming the Best of Both Worlds: Mixed Heritage Children of the Pacific Northwest Fur Trade and Formation of Identity
Commissioners and Women in Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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Commissioners' Mess Tent at Duck Lake
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The Community Conundrum: Metis Critical Perspectives
on the Application of R v Powley in British Columbia
Contesting the Colonial Order on the Canadian Prairies: Government Policy, Indigenous Resistance and the Administration of Treaty 6, 1870-1890
Criminal Empire: The Making of the Savage in a Lawless Land
Digital Archives Database Project
Familial Foes? French-Sioux Families and Plains Métis Brigades in the Nineteenth Century
From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries
From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
Grade Eight Treaty Education Learning Resource
Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Exploring Treaty Impacts and Alternatives" inquiry questions about treaty relationships, spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.
Half-Breed Commission at Duck Lake
Half-Breed Commission at Duck Lake
Half-Breed Commission at Duck lake
Half-Breed Commission at Fort Pitt
Half-Breed Commission at Sturgeon River
Half-Breed Commission on Trail to Green Lake
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Métis Nation
Podcast features researchers from Library and Archives Canada's and the Saint-Boniface Historical Society discussing how their institutions are helping people discover their ancestry and identity.
Duration: 38:24.
Hivernant Métis Families, Brigades and Settlements in the Cypress Hills
"Holding Their End Up in Splendid Style": Indigenous People and Canada's First World War
Identifying and Quantifying Métis 'Élite': An Analysis of Relative Wealth, Based on Red River Settlement Censuses of 1835
Identity Crisis
Looks at the controversy over the legitimacy of "Eastern Métis".
Duration: 23:54.
Jacob Johnston
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Law, life, and government at Red River: General Quarterly Court of Assiniboia, Annotated Records, 1844-1872
Volume 2 of 2. Link to volume 1 https://iportal.usask.ca/record/106270
Law, Life, and Government at Red River: Settlement and Governance, 1812-1872
Volume 1 of 2. Link to volume 2 https://iportal.usask.ca/record/106271
Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia: Activity and Resources
Website contains links to game in which students make choices about what the Red River Settlement's people should do leading up to the creation of Manitoba; teacher resources; and other resources arranged by theme.
Related Material: From the Past Into the Future: Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia: Teacher’s Guide.